Dear friend! Please hurry up as much as possible with the sheet1. If the translation is delayed, please send me a touch-up copy of the Russian text; the thing is that there is a trip to Germany coming up. It is so rare that we have to catch it, and it is coming soon.

I received a letter2 from Us[ievich]: he asks me to send him the protocols of the Mal[inov]sky3 case, referring to Tr[oyanovsko]goy! I answered him archirugatelly (I couldn't stand it) and asked him to show my letter to you as well: please teach these fools, Us[ievich] Volodya and others, as an elder sister teaches young boys! It's a pity that Us[ievich] listens to Tr[oyanovsko] and doesn't break acquaintance with this scoundrel!

The searches of Elena F[edorovna] in Kharkov and the "paper" investigated by the Commissariat!!!!

From Bern, Gr[igor]y writes about the great victory over the Grimm's K° yesterday! Hooray!

Keep up the good work with the youngsters! What about the battle against Droz4? What about the referendum?

Don't you write a French and an English translation of the leaflet in duplicate?

A firm handshake.

Yours2* .

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 4433 - autograph.

1* On the letter there is a note I.F.Armand: "February 25, 1917", on the basis of which the letter is dated.

2* Further Lenin's signature is a stroke.

1It refers to leaflet No. 1 "Gegen die Luge der Vaterlandsverteitigung" ("Against the Lies about the Defense of the Fatherland"), published under the signature of the "Zimmerwald Left Group." It included Lenin's "Proposal for Changes in the Resolution on the Military Question".

2The letter has not been tracked down.

3See doc. 65, note 2 and doc. 76.

4This refers to the struggle against the pacifist speeches of J. Ambert-Droz.